Adobe Illustrator CS Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book)
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Book Description
How often have you wished you had access to the team behind your favorite software--in this case, Adobe Illustrator--so that you could really pick their brains about all of its coolest features? With this book, you do. In these pages the Adobe Creative Team gives you a guided tour of the graphics powerhouse, Illustrator CS. Best of all, it does so at your pace. Whether your beautifully designed graphics end up in print, the Web, broadcast video, or even cell phone displays, this book shows you how to get them there--easily, elegantly, and efficiently. You'll find step-by-step, project-based lessons in all of Illustrator's key features, including those that are new to CS: powerful new type tools, the Scribble Effect, hundreds of professionally designed templates, support for 3D graphics, and more. Each chapter contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, and a companion CD includes all the files needed to complete the book's lessons.
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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:
An Excellent Book For A Powerful ProgramSaturday, February 05, 2005
I purchased this book so that I could independently learn AI for a graphic design class. I'm certain that I would never have figured out all of the powerful features of AI without the help of this book. The layout is perfect; you can use this as a step-by-step walkthrough and then later as a reference. The projects in each chapter really help to embed the knowledge into your brain because you learn by doing. The projects also help to stimulate your creativity by giving you examples of what can be done while showing you how to do it. This is an almost perfect book that elicits my first review anywhere. I observed no substantial errors and only a few typos.
3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Every bit like school.Friday, January 28, 2005
I used this for an online Illustrator class and was impressed. Not unlike a classroom setting, you do moan and groan as you plod through the lessons. The reward is that you do learn quite a bit. Each tool is explained along with a basic technique. After that, the creativity and vision is up to you. This is a great starting point for the program, even if you are arrogant enough to believe you can 'figure it out'.
5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Great On Hands Guide!Sunday, August 29, 2004
I highly recommend this book for those who like to learn hands on. I've done 4 lessons in one day--I can take a break, walk away, and easily return to what I was learning. And they give you many pictures as you go -- very different from the Ill. 10 Dummies book.
23 out of 24 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent learning resourceFriday, April 02, 2004
I teach Illustrator and use this for my college courses. It is a fantastic book that includes lots of new material for the latest CS version. I used the previous Classroom in a Book for my classes before our school upgraded to CS. Much of the material is new or improved. There is an updated chapter on transparency and lots of new features are covered - like the 3D effects, which have a new chapter. In fact there are several new chapters covering new features - making it difficult to determine how much to include in a semester long course - but the book lets my students go through additional material on their own following the course. I find it silly that someone who has not read the book (only flipped through it at a local bookstore) has decided to provide a poor review. I'd encourage they take the time and actually read the book. I have not found any errors, and I've been using Illustrator since version 3.
12 out of 22 people found the following review helpful:
Errors in a book by Adobe?Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Maybe mistakes are inevitable, but in a book published under Adobe's name? I was lookng through a copy at a bookstore to see if I wanted to buy it, and happened to flip to the section on Illustrator and Photoshop and found several mistakes - not spelling mistakes mind you, but technical errors. For example, it says you cannot export type on a path or area type from Ill to PS but as of CS you can.
Makes me wonder how many other things were not updated to the latest version? Also makes me hestitate to buy it.